Word: margineers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whitbeck '29, playing number two position on the University team lost his match by a narrow margin after taking the first game, while Hooe of the Boat Club and S. B. Meyers '29, played five games with the Harvard man losing the deciding game...
...ninety minute practice established this fall contrasts sharply with the extended arc-lit sessions common in other institutions, the Harvard team was more successful than it has been in years; and the energy conserved by curtailed practice resulted not only in increased team effectiveness but provided a satisfactory margin of power devoted to individual protection...
...business by a time-table drawn up before there were railroads and highways passable in winter, is not so apparent in the House as in the Senate. When the 71st Congress sits next year, the Republican House majority will be much larger but no more decisive than the margin of twoscore seats on which the Republican 70th Congress operated last session and will resume operating next week. The impropriety of voters being "represented" from December to March by individuals whom they have voted in November to replace, is seldom so glaring in the House as it is in the Senate...
...margin of error in such standards as college board marks and secondary school grades becomes increasingly wide as the proportion of applicants for admission accepted by colleges diminishes. The chances that the student who averages seventy percent in his entrance examinations will have greater capacity for college work than the student who averages sixty five by no means amount to certainty. Still less can a sure distinction be made between the eighty and seventy five...
...Senator from Wyoming. This was an error. Wyoming Democrats declared that it was a "glaring" error and an "egregious" error. Final returns showed that Senator John Benjamin Kendrick, Democrat, cattleman, 32° Mason, of Sheridan, Wyoming, had been reelected by 8,700 votes which, in Wyoming, is a comfortable margin. It will be Senator Kendrick's third successive term. Aged 71, Senator Kendrick is a member of the committees on Agriculture and Forestry, Appropriations, Indian Affairs, Irrigation and Reclamation, Public Lands and Surveys...